When to spray gooseberries with boiling water. How to process gooseberries in early spring and get a good harvest. Methods for processing currant and gooseberry bushes

In order to harvest a good harvest of gooseberries in the summer and enjoy juicy and fragrant berries, you need to regularly care for the shrubs in the autumn-spring period. The spring processing of gooseberries is especially important.

The first warm rays of the spring sun already in March begin to melt the snow in gardens and orchards. All perennial plants are ready to wake up and start active growth. But along with them, numerous pests come out of wintering, just waiting for the moment to profit from juicy young greens, delicate flowers and sweet berries. They are waiting for their moment under fallen leaves and lumps of earth.

That is why in the spring it is necessary to take care that the future harvest pleases your family members, and uninvited guests are left with nothing.

Disease prevention

Any experienced gardener knows that strong plants that receive proper care are much less susceptible to any misfortune. Therefore, every summer resident should always remember that it is much easier to prevent the onset of a disease than to fight it later. Here is a list of necessary measures that no owner of gooseberry plantings should forget about.

• Regularly sanitary pruning, ruthlessly removing diseased and damaged shoots and thinning the bush for better ventilation.
• Be sure to collect and burn fallen leaves - a place of accumulation of pathogens and insect pest larvae.
• To improve aeration and destroy pests wintering in the soil, dig up tree trunks.
• Plant repellant flowers nearby with bushes, such as marigolds, marigolds, nasturtiums and others.
• Carry out regular organic top dressing, which significantly strengthens the immunity of plants. This is especially important for young bushes.

Gooseberry pests and how to deal with them

With the onset of the spring season, insects emerge from their winter hiding places, and it is very important to have time to deal with them before they cause irreparable damage to your plantings. And there are a lot of gooseberry lovers among them, and you need to be able to deal with everyone on time.

spider mite. It feeds on the juice of tender young leaves, simultaneously braiding them with cobwebs. Affected leaves turn yellow, dry and fly around. This pest is dangerous because of its incredibly fast reproduction, which is facilitated by the establishment of hot weather.

You can deal with this uninvited guest with a decoction of wormwood or tobacco infusion, adding laundry soap to the solution for better deposition on the surface of the foliage. Infusions of garlic cloves, tansy flowers, onion peels or burdock greens help well. With a serious lesion, it is necessary to use special insecticidal preparations even before flowering begins.

gooseberry sawfly. It can completely destroy all foliage in 2-3 days, leaving only the skeletons. Berries with such a lesion crumble, not receiving sufficient nutrition. The larvae overwinter in the soil under the bushes.

An effective control measure will be digging up the soil, as well as mechanically shaking off insects on the litter and destroying them. In addition, it is necessary to apply regular spraying with infusions of wood ash, tomato tops or dry mustard, not forgetting to add laundry soap to them.

gooseberry fire. Caterpillars of moths damage flowers and ovaries, which is why the crop turns red ahead of time, and then crumbles.

Control methods consist of digging up the soil and spraying with infusions of ash or dry mustard. It helps well to cover the near-stem circles with sheets of roofing material or similar material, which prevents the butterflies from leaving the soil in the spring after wintering.

Aphid shoot gooseberry. From the eggs hibernating on the shoots, larvae emerge in the spring, sucking the juice from the young foliage, gradually capturing the tender tops of the new shoots. The leaves and tops of the shoots are deformed and form a ball.

As a preventive measure against aphids in the spring, plantings should be shed with boiling water, and later, when the larvae appear, treated with an insecticide (for example, fufanon).

gooseberry moth. After wintering, hungry caterpillars destroy the buds and foliage of the plant. The second wave of pest attacks occurs in July-August.

Careful cleaning and burning of leaves, processing with tobacco decoctions and digging tree trunks helps to fight the moth. You can spray with a solution of karbofos, which is carried out in early spring with large volumes of damage.

Gallica currant. Despite the name, it gladly destroys not only the leaves and shoots of currants, but also gooseberries. This pest is divided into two types - shoot midge and leaf gall midge. According to the name, one species feeds on the juice of young leaves, which causes them to dry out or become deformed. The second type through cracks and damage on the surface of the shoots gets under the bark. In these places, dark spots form, and then cracks. The branches dry and break.

The method of struggle consists in cutting and burning the affected branches, as well as digging the soil and mulching the tree trunks with peat. In case of severe infection, it is necessary to apply spraying with insecticide solutions (karbofos, fufanon).

Zlatka currant. This pest is dangerous not only for currant shoots, but also for gooseberry branches. He destroys their core, starting from the very top and gradually descending to the base.

It is possible to fight this scourge only by cutting and burning the affected branches.

Glass currant. This insect also does not disdain, except for currants, to feast on the core of gooseberry shoots, as a result of which the branches wither, dry and break.

Sanitary pruning of diseased branches “at the root” and their burning helps to cope with the glass case. It is also effective to loosen the soil with its subsequent sprinkling with a dry mixture of tobacco dust, ground pepper, ash and dry mustard.

gooseberry diseases

American powdery mildew. It is a whitish loose coating on shoots and leaves. Then it covers the berries as well, becoming dense and brown. As a result, the plant slows down growth, the foliage is deformed, the berries crack and crumble. If treatment measures are not taken, the bush dies in 2-3 years, and spores infect neighboring plants.

The fight should begin in the spring, pouring boiling water over the bushes. Then the bush and the soil under it should be treated with Bordeaux liquid, a solution of soda ash or an infusion of wood ash with the addition of laundry soap. Treatment with infusion of cow dung is effective. In advanced cases, spraying with fungicides such as Oxychoma or Fitosporin is indicated.

gooseberry anthracnose. This fungal disease primarily affects the foliage, forming small brown spots that increase in size. The diseased foliage eventually dries up and falls off, the bushes stunt growth, and the harvest is extremely poor and poor in taste.

Control measures include the collection and burning of fallen and affected leaves. In addition, spraying with copper sulfate should be carried out, and in case of large volumes of damage - Bordeaux mixture (before flowering and then 3 more times during the growing season), with a frequency of two weeks.

Septoria(white spot). Signs of the disease are the appearance on the leaves of gray round spots with a dark border. Later, the leaf plates curl, dry and fall off, the shrub is completely exposed.

Methods for the destruction of the disease include the collection and burning of fallen and diseased leaves, loosening of tree trunks with the simultaneous introduction of zinc, manganese sulphate, boron and copper.

goblet rust. This fungal disease affects the leaves, on which terracotta-colored spots appear with yellow seals from spores, gradually turning into cylinders. Leaf plates with this disease are bent, and the berries take on an ugly shape and fall off.

As a preventive measure, choose varieties that are resistant to damage by fungi of this species. Treat diseased plants with Bordeaux mixture during leafing, and then twice more after flowering, with an interval of 8-10 days.

gooseberry mosaic. This viral disease is characteristic exclusively for this culture. It is manifested by the appearance on the leaves of a bright yellow pattern, the lines of which run along the veins. The gooseberry stops growing and bearing fruit.

This disease is not treated, therefore, in order to avoid infection of other bushes, unhealthy specimens are uprooted and burned. As a preventive measure, choose healthy seedlings and carry out timely control of virus carriers - aphids, mites and other sucking insects.

But also carefully monitor his health. After all, they can significantly reduce the yield of our favorite berry, or even lead to the death of the plant.

It should be noted that gooseberry bushes they suffer from basically the same diseases as currants, but unlike the latter, the degree of damage is much stronger and the rate of spread of diseases is faster.

Therefore, it is very important for us to catch the first signs of the disease in time and take the necessary measures. You can, of course, try to plant in your garden only those new varieties that are resistant to diseases, and ruthlessly get rid of the old ones.

But, firstly, each of us has our favorite variety, which is simply impossible to part with and which is worth fighting for; secondly, probably, such ideal varieties of gooseberries have not yet been bred that would not hurt anything at all.

Therefore, we should not relax, but we must carefully monitor the well-being of the bushes of our northern grapes.

After all, the sooner we notice the first signs of diseases, the much faster we will help the plant cope with them. In addition, in this case it will be enough to apply only folk methods, excluding chemicals.

Gooseberry suffers most from the following diseases: American powdery mildew (spheroteca), septoria (white spotting), anthracnose, goblet rust, mosaic.

As you can see, there are enough misfortunes for our gooseberries. And before we take a closer look at each of them, let's talk about prevention.

Prevention and more prevention

Undoubtedly, we all know the golden rule: it is much easier to prevent a disease than to treat it later.

This rule can certainly be applied to plants, and their protection from pests must also begin with prevention. What preventive measures can we take:

• strict observance of the rules of agricultural technology when growing gooseberries;
• we try to prevent thickening of the bushes and cut out excess, damaged and dry branches in a timely manner;
• we collect and remove fallen leaves, followed by their burning;
• dig the soil under the plant;
• we plant plants next to gooseberry bushes that repel pests - marigolds, chrysanthemums, dill, garlic and others;
• in early spring, it is possible to douse the bushes with boiling water, thus destroying the spores of fungal diseases that have appeared;
• do not forget about regular nutrition, which significantly strengthens the immunity of the plant;
• spraying gooseberry bushes with a solution of zircon in the spring also improves immunity.

American powdery mildew

Symptoms. This fungal disease is a real plague for gooseberries, and not only for him, because currants and other plants also suffer from it.

The first symptoms of this scourge may appear in the spring immediately after flowering. Young shoots and leaves begin to become covered with a white, loose bloom, which is initially well erased.

Then gradually it passes to the ovaries, berries, covering their larger area. Every day, the plaque becomes more and more compacted and, in the end, it begins to resemble brown or dark brown felt.

Damaged shoots begin to bend, stop fully developing, and often dry out altogether. The leaves curl, become brittle, and the berries covered with this coating stop growing, often crack and quickly crumble.

And if we do not start treatment, then the affected gooseberry bushes may die within just two or three years.

Moreover, the spores of this harmful fungus are carried by the wind, infecting more and more plants. They are not afraid of any frost, they feel great in winter on fallen leaves and infected shoots, and high summer temperatures.

That is why the fight against this insidious disease must be carried out throughout the season - from early spring to late autumn.

Control measures. There are quite a lot of ways to deal with this common disease in the literature. I want to recommend you some of them, which I think are the most effective:

1. Early spring dousing of gooseberry bushes with boiling water partially destroys the spores of the fungus.

2. Then you can treat the gooseberries and the soil around it with a 3% Bordeaux mixture or a solution of soda ash (50 g of soda per 10 liters of water), adding laundry soap there, for better adhesion of the solution. This spraying is desirable to carry out before bud break on the gooseberry.

3. It is also good to spray the bushes with an infusion of wood ash (300 g per 10 liters of water), and also to bring the ash into the trunk circles, distributing it evenly and mixing it with the ground.

4. The bacterial method of combating this insidious disease also gives very good results. To do this, we take 1 part of the infusion of mullein or rotted manure, dilute it in 3 parts of water and insist for three days. Then we dilute the infusion three times with water and filter.
You can also prepare infusions from rotted hay or hay dust, greenhouse soil or forest floor. The effectiveness of these infusions lies in the fact that the bacteria that multiply in them, once on the gooseberry bushes, begin to feed on the mycelium with pleasure.
It is advisable to treat with these infusions three times per season: the first time we spray before flowering, the second time immediately after it, and the third time we carry out the treatment before leaf fall.

5. Another interesting method - we make such a solution: dilute 1 liter of serum in ten liters of water and add 15-20 drops of iodine. This solution can be sprayed bushes throughout the season every 10 days.

6. When cutting off stepchildren on tomatoes, do not throw them away. They will also help us overcome powdery mildew. We insist on tomato tops, then add 40-50 g of laundry soap to the infusion and spray the gooseberry bushes with this remedy. And at the end of summer, when we are already starting to harvest the stalks of tomatoes, you can overlay gooseberries with them for the winter. Such a folk method is guaranteed to save you from pests and powdery mildew.

7. In autumn, it is necessary to carefully prune the affected plants, removing the affected ends of the shoots without any pity, collect the fallen leaves and burn everything at once, without postponing this matter for later, since powdery mildew spores scatter rather quickly.

8. If the disease is already running, then, in order to avoid spreading it throughout the garden, it is simply necessary to apply chemical means of protection. These are drugs such as: "Topaz", "Oxyhom", "Fitosporin" and others. At the same time, strictly observe the dose recommended in the instructions for use.

gooseberry anthracnose

Symptoms. Anthracnose is another fungal disease that primarily affects gooseberry leaves.

In the beginning, small, blurry dark brown spots appear on the leaves. As the disease develops, the spots merge, the leaves dry and almost all fall off prematurely. Only three or four leaves remain on the tops of the growing shoots.

In bushes affected by anthracnose, the growth of young shoots is significantly reduced, the sugar content of berries is reduced, and it is no longer necessary to count on a good harvest.

Control measures. First of all, it is necessary to collect all the fallen leaves, since it is in them that the fungus remains for the winter. Leaves are burned immediately.

In early spring, we check for unharvested leaves under the bushes. When the disease is just beginning, we cut off the affected leaves and spray the gooseberry bushes with a solution of copper sulfate (40 g per 10 liters of water).

With a dangerous development of the disease, it is necessary to treat gooseberry bushes with 1% Bordeaux liquid at least four times. We spray - before flowering, immediately after it, then 12-14 days after the second spraying and the last time we process the gooseberries immediately after harvesting.

White spot or septoria

1 - affected currant shoot, 2 - affected leaf, 3 - drying of leaves due to severe damage, 4 - pycnidia and conidia, 5 - perithecium, bags with ascospores

Symptoms. With this disease, the leaves also suffer, on which a large number of rounded grayish spots with a dark border appear. A little later, dark dots appear on the spots, and they contain spores of the causative agent of septoria.

Gooseberry leaves begin to curl, dry out and fall off ahead of time. After a while, the bushes remain completely without leaves.

Control measures. We fight white spotting in the same way as with anthracnose, namely: we collect and destroy leaves (in autumn or early spring), at the initial stage we cut off diseased leaves, loosen the soil under the bushes.

We can also increase the resistance of gooseberries to septoria by introducing manganese sulphate, copper, boron, and zinc into the soil around the bushes.

goblet rust

1-currant shoot with aetsia on leaves and berries, 2-gooseberry shoot with affected leaves and berries, 3-affected sedge leaf with urediniospore pads, 4-sedge shoot with affected leaves, 5-aecia and aetsiospores, 6-urediniospores, 7- teliospore

Then they take the form of small glasses. All spring and early summer, the fungus spends on gooseberry bushes. Then insects and wind spread its spores to weeds. He feels especially good on the sedge.

And then all summer the fungus develops on their leaves and winters there.

And in the spring it returns to the gooseberry bushes again, the leaves of which, becoming ill, become ugly and fall off ahead of time. Gooseberries also change, become one-sided, their development stops, and then quickly dry out and easily fall off.

Control measures. First of all, try to plant varieties resistant to this disease. When planting, choose higher places on the site so that there is no stagnation of water and on which sedge does not grow.

Affected plants must be treated with 1% Bordeaux liquid: first - when the leaves bloom, then - after flowering and the last time - 8-10 days after the second.

gooseberry mosaic

3, 3a - affected gooseberry leaves, edging of gooseberry veins

The diseases described above can affect both gooseberries and currants and even other plants.

At the same time, our gooseberry also has its own disease. This is gooseberry mosaic, which is a viral disease.

A virus can live and develop only in the cells of living organisms. It spreads both by sucking insects, such as aphids, and herbivorous mites, with the juice of diseased plants, as well as through undisinfected, after pruning infected bushes, garden tools.

Symptoms. When gooseberry bushes are affected by this disease, first of all, a bright yellow pattern begins to appear on the leaves, which is located along the main veins.

The bushes cease to grow, bear fruit very poorly, the leaves are small and wrinkled.

Control measures. Gooseberry mosaic is practically not subject to treatment. Bushes affected by the disease must be dug up and immediately burned.

In order for the gooseberry to avoid this disease, we will take preventive measures: the acquisition and planting of healthy seedlings; timely process the bushes against sucking insects, so as not to bring the disease; comply with quarantine measures.

At the end of the article, a few general tips for processing plants:

• We start processing gooseberries with all these solutions as soon as the first signs of the disease appear with an interval of 10-12 days.
• If it rains within 5 hours after our treatment, the spraying must be repeated.
• Two weeks before the scheduled harvesting of berries, we finish processing the bushes with all preparations.
• The treatment of gooseberry bushes against diseases and pests is best done in the evening or in cloudy weather during the day.
• When processing, try to moisten abundantly not only the upper side of the leaves, but do not forget about the bottom.

In this article, we got acquainted with various gooseberry diseases and learned how to deal with them. Now we need to deal with our favorite gooseberry, but this is already in the next article.

See you soon, dear readers!

Most often, gooseberry bushes suffer from the same diseases as currants. The only difference is that the first one has a high propagation speed. That is why it is very important to identify and stop the development of the disease in time. Better yet, take preventive measures or plant disease-resistant varieties on your site. But it is not always possible to do so. Therefore, today we will consider all gooseberry diseases and their treatment. And this information will definitely help save yours, which you usually cultivate on your site.

The sooner the disease is detected, the greater the chance of recovery.

Let's start with prevention

In fact, gooseberry diseases are easier to prevent than to fight them. This is a well-known fact, so before moving on to the list of ailments, I would like to talk about prevention.

1. For gooseberries, there are special agrotechnical rules that must be clearly known and observed.
2. Quite often, the cause of the development of diseases is the thickening of plantings, so dry, weak and damaged shoots should be removed in time.
3. Leaf litter is an ideal soil for the development of fungal diseases. Therefore, the autumn care of the gooseberry must necessarily include the cleaning of fallen leaves and its subsequent burning.
4. It is advisable to periodically loosen the soil under the plant.
5. It is worth making it a rule to treat plants with boiling water every spring - thanks to this event, active fungal spores will be destroyed.
6. To strengthen the immune system, the culture should be fed correctly and in a timely manner and sprayed with a Zircon solution in the spring.

gooseberry diseases

Gooseberries are characterized by diseases such as:

• rust;
• American powdery mildew;
• anthracnose;
• septoria;
• mosaic.

As you can see, the list is quite extensive. Let's find out how each of the gooseberry diseases manifests itself, and how you can fight them.

American is a fungal disease. This is a real plague for gooseberries! The symptoms of this disease are as follows:

• in the spring, at the end of the flowering period, a loose white coating appears on young leaves and shoots; at the initial stage of the disease, this coating is very easily erased;
• after some time, the same plaque can be found already on the ovaries and fruits, where it will spread at a high speed;
• gradually soft plaque will turn into a dense cocoon, darken and eventually its color will become dark brown;
• shoots wrapped in this felt will begin to twist, their growth will stop and in most cases they will dry out;
• the affected leaves gradually curl, their structure becomes more fragile;
• the fruits under the felt stop their development, crack and do not stick to the branches.

Important! If you do not start treatment, then after 2 years the culture will die!

The fight against powdery mildew should be carried out throughout the season. And the whole difficulty lies in the fact that the spores of this disease are not afraid of either winter frosts or summer heat.

1. The treatment of bushes with boiling water, which is carried out in early spring, will help to partially destroy the fungus.
2. The soil around the infected plant is recommended to be treated with 3% Bordeaux liquid.
3. You can also use soda ash, 25 g of which is diluted in 5 liters of water and laundry soap is added to this mixture. The resulting preparation is sprayed with bushes until the buds open.
4. Wood ash is also used for spraying. 150 g of ash is dissolved in 5 liters of water and the affected plants are treated. In parallel, it is worth bringing dry ash into the near-trunk zone of each bush, connecting it with the ground.
5. Good results show organic. To prepare a bacterial solution, mix rotted manure and water in a ratio of 1: 3 and leave it warm for 3 days. The resulting infusion is once again diluted three times with water, filtered and introduced into the root zone of plants.
6. The mushroom picker will help destroy the bacteria from the next infusion. Soak 1 part of rotted hay, greenhouse soil, hay dust or forest floor in 3 parts water. After 3 days, the drug is ready.
   
7. The next solution consists of half a liter of serum, 5 liters of water and 10 drops of iodine. The finished product should be sprayed on plants every 10-11 days from spring to late autumn.
8. And the last folk remedy is tomato tops. It must be insisted in water for several days, add 50 g of laundry soap to the infusion and use it to spray the bushes. In parallel with this event, stalks of tomatoes collected at the end of summer are laid around each bush and left until spring.

To prevent the spread of powdery mildew to healthy neighboring bushes, leaf litter must be collected and burned off site and any diseased shoots removed.

If the disease is in an advanced stage, then no folk methods will help here. In this case, it is necessary to turn to chemicals. Plants can be saved by means such as "Topaz", "Fitosporin" and "Oksihom".

Anthracnose

This is another disease that develops due to the attack of fungi. Its symptoms will be as follows:

• first of all, the leaves of plants suffer - small dark brown spots of a blurred shape appear on them;
• over time, these spots begin to merge, which leads to drying and premature fall of the deciduous mass;
• as a result of the development of the disease, 3-4 leaves remain on the shoots, which are located only on the tops;
• the plant stops in development, the growth of young shoots is significantly reduced;
• berries lose sugar, and yields fall.

To prevent the spread of mycelium spores, it is imperative to remove and burn the litter. In the spring, a control check of the site is carried out for the presence of old foliage.

1. If the disease was detected at the initial stage of its development, then in this case it is recommended to spray the bushes with a solution of copper sulfate. It is prepared by combining 20 g of vitriol and 5 liters of water.
2. If the disease progresses, then a four-fold treatment should be carried out using 1% Bordeaux mixture - before and after flowering, 2 weeks after the second spraying and after harvesting.

Septoria

Septoria, or white spotting, has the following symptoms:

• gray spots appear on the leaves with a border of a darker shade;
• after some time, dark dots form in the center of such round spots - mycelium spores;
• after some time, the leaves curl, dry out and fall off.

Measures to combat white spotting are similar to the treatment for anthracnose. In autumn and spring, care should be taken to clean the site, periodically loosen the soil and destroy diseased foliage.

columnar rust

The causative agent of this disease is a fungus and it affects plants as follows:

• orange spots with yellow spore cushions appear on the leaf plate;
• these pads take on a goblet shape after a while;
• the leaves become ugly and soon fall off;
• the fruits become one-sided, stop developing, dry out and do not stick to the branches.

To combat rust, a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid is used three times - when the buds open, after flowering, and again after 10 days.

To avoid the occurrence of columnar rust, it is advisable to plant gooseberries in high areas where there will be no stagnant water. For planting, it is desirable to choose varieties resistant to this disease.

Mosaic

If previous diseases could affect other crops along with gooseberries, then the mosaic is “its own” disease. This disease is viral and its carriers can be insects, both sucking and herbivorous, as well as infected garden tools.

The mosaic appears with the following features:

• a yellow pattern is visible on the leaves, which stretches along the main large veins;
• plant growth stops, new shoots are not formed;
• productivity is rapidly falling;
• leaves become small and wrinkled.

As soon as signs of a mosaic have been identified, the bushes must be immediately dug up and burned outside the site. This disease can be prevented by initially paying attention to the health of seedlings, treating the crop against insects and observing quarantine measures.

gooseberry processing

Spray infected bushes should be when the first signs of the disease are detected. This procedure is carried out, as a rule, every 10 days, and if it rains within 5 hours after treatment, the plants are sprayed again.

Processing is preferably carried out in cloudy weather or late in the evening. Bushes are sprayed with special care, paying attention not only to the upper surface of the leaves, but also to the lower.

Decide on the timing of harvesting and stop spraying two weeks before that

So, we have decided why the gooseberry leaves fall - the cause of this disease. Carry out prevention and constantly monitor the condition of the foliage on each bush - this way you can notice the development of the disease in time, and, therefore, it will be easier to get rid of it.

Gooseberry is a plant that is resistant to most. Despite this fact, he can get sick at the most unexpected moment. This is often due to many factors, the main of which is the unfortunate location of the bush (in a damp, shaded part of the yard or in a wet lowland). In addition, subject to the rules of cultivation and care, you can avoid the invasion of insect pests.

To prevent the occurrence of diseases and the influence of pests, it is necessary to carry out preventive treatment of gooseberries. This stage of caring for this berry plant is placed in third place, after the necessary pruning and fertilizing.

Many questions arise about the harmfulness of pesticides to the human body. There is a percentage of summer residents who do not use these funds to combat ailments and pests.

It should be noted that gooseberries are processed in the fall after harvest. Before the start of the growing season, all the chemical components of the preparations have time to dissolve.

The entire processing process should begin with cleaning the area around the gooseberry bush. At the same time, carefully, with the help of a rake, it is necessary to remove fallen leaves and excess accumulated debris. It is in such places that pests and spores of various diseases like to winter.

After cleaning the area around the bush, weeding is done within a radius of up to 1 m from the base of the plant. Larger weeds should be undermined so as to remove their root system to the maximum. Small weeds can be removed by loosening the soil.

Stages of processing gooseberries for the winter:

• The necessary ones are being carried out. Old 5-6 year old branches are removed, as well as diseased, crooked and underdeveloped shoots.
• The soil is treated with substances from weeds.
• Digging up the area around the bush.
• They are brought in per bush (up to 20 g of potassium sulfate, about 8 kg of compost, up to 300 g of wood ash and 30 g of double superphosphate). Also, as an option, you can use mullein or chicken manure as liquid solutions.
• The soil is treated with insecticides.
• Mulch the area around the plant.

It should be noted that mulching during the autumn processing of gooseberries helps to maintain the air-water balance of the soil, maintaining the nutritional and temperature regimes of the upper layers of the soil. Also, mulch is a buffer that prevents the root system from freezing and a kind of barrier to weed growth.

Do not postpone these events until later. It is best to spend them on time (October - early November).

Insecticides for the treatment of gooseberries

Insecticides are among the most effective insect control agents at any time during the growing process. The treatment of gooseberries from pests is carried out mainly during the growing season by spraying foliage.

There are many tools that are widely used by summer residents. Among them, the most popular are:

Processing of gooseberries in the spring is carried out through the use of the following means: Tabazol P, Bordeaux mixture, Copper sulfate. In addition to these drugs, there are a number of insecticides that are designed to treat gooseberry bushes. Among them are Etaphos, Karbofos.

Treatment of gooseberries with fungicides

There are many diseases that can affect gooseberries. As you know, the bushes of this horticultural crop are particularly resistant to the manifestations of symptoms of the most common plant diseases. Among the most persistent varieties of gooseberries, Kolobok, Malachite, Russian Yellow, Northern Captain, can be noted. But they are not 100% immune from the influence of fungal spores. Treatment of gooseberries for diseases is carried out in autumn or early spring.

Diseases on gooseberries occur when the bush is neglected, violation of the rules of care and choice of a place for planting, adverse climatic conditions, planting pre-infected seedlings.

The most famous fungicides are:

Preventive treatment of gooseberries from pests and diseases will contribute to better growth and fruiting of the plant. Therapeutic measures will help to quickly eliminate the manifestation of the main symptoms of gooseberry diseases. It is only necessary to strictly observe the necessary proportions and correctly apply the selected drugs.

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